Americana at its finest

The storytelling of Patterson Hood, songwriter/frontman for The Drive-by Truckers is nothing less than an immaculate portrait of the sprawling, family, political drama of life in America.  “Uncle Phil & Aunt Phyllis In The Month After The Election” is complete with betrayal, transformation, pharmaceuticals and ass-biting dogs.  Hood’s first solo album, Murdering Oscar is recently [...]

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Zappa and Lithuania

I’m a Zappa nut. And I’ll guiltily admit to being steered toward his madness and mayhem by Phish, when I first heard their cover of
“Peaches en Regalia”. I’ve been longing to catch one of his son, Dweezil’s “Zappa Plays Zappa” shows, but so far, no go. Turns out Zappa’s music was adopted [...]

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About Time!

In cased you missed it, Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi hucked his shoes at outgoing President Bush and shouted, “this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,” at a press conference in Baghdad. The BBC reported that “showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in Arab culture.” [...]

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Democracy When?

Well so far I’ve managed to avoid politics here on the blog, but last night I heard a segment on Democracy Now which really worried me in which Jeremy Scahill discusses how despite Antiwar Rhetoric, Clinton-Obama Plans Would Keep US Mercenaries, Troops in Iraq for Years to Come. I haven’t been paying [...]

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